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Overseas Hindus Protest Against Persecution Of Hindus In Pakistan

9/07/2013 08:25:00 AM

Past
fortnight saw various Civil Rights volunteers , Hindu organizations and
hundreds of people from Hindu community coming together to hold protest
demonstrations against the Pakistani Government at several places in USA and UK
to highlight the atrocities against minorities in that country.

In
New York and Washington DC, these protests were organized in front of Pakistan
consulate on August 14 – Pakistan’s Independence Day by several local Hindu
organizations like Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Probasi of Brooklyn, Overseas Friends
of BJP - OFBJP USA, Michigan Justice for Hindus, Human Rights Coalition against
Radical Islam, Friends of India Society International, World Hindu Council of
America and many others.

Speaking
at the rally at New York, Narain Kataria, president of Indian American
Intellectuals Forum said “At the time of Partition, Hindus and Sikhs were
approximately 22-25 percent but now they are only about one percent. Thousands
of Hindu families are being torn apart by their desperation to flee persecution
in Pakistan. We urge the Obama administration to intervene, save the minorities
and restrain Pakistan,"

At
the protest in Washington DC, Jenica Wright, a human rights lawyer with Amnesty
International, who has worked with members of the minority community in Karachi
said, "It is not acceptable to any citizen of a democratic country, what
is happening in Pakistan. Every person has the right to have a peaceful and
respectful life. To register our protest, we are holding this
demonstration." Shri Shivram Seetaram and Shri Utsav Chakraborty of OFBJP
also spoke in the program.

"We
strongly condemn what is happening in Pakistan against the minorities",
said Gaurang Desai, coordinator of Friends of India Society International at a
protest rally held at San Jose – California.

The
protesters carried banners and placards saying: "Pakistan is a Living Hell
for Hindus, Sikhs and Christians; "Save Hindus, Sikhs and Christians from
Islamic Terror" etc. The organizers handed over a memorandum to the office
of the Pakistani Consul General expressing outrage, shock and indignation at
the horrific treatment meted out to Hindus, Sikhs and Christians.

In
London, about 200 volunteers came together on 17th August under the banner of
the Alliance of Pakistani & British Hindus to hold protest in front of the
Pakistani High Commission, London to demand equal Human Rights for the Hindus
in Pakistan.

A
petition was handed over to the Pakistani High Commission asking the Pakistani
Government to take immediate steps to ensure the well-being, safety of Hindus
in Pakistan and to ensure it fulfills its obligatory duties towards Hindus of
providing security and freedom.